coulds, shoulds, and ought tos

Well, I'm sitting here at loose ends. We are moved and the next grandkid doesn't come til August 10 and I'm leaving on Friday for the Pacific NW for a 5 day vacay with the girls.

So what to do, what to do?

I could go through these last boxes of stuff from the old house and shop and my daughter's attic, most of which I intend to donate to the women's crises center here. I could organize the last two bags of drawings from nearly 40 years of etched glass. I suppose I could do some finish work on the Botanicas that are cast but it's high summer out there which means it's too hot to do anything outside like cold work or gardening or replacing the hose from the pump to the filter in the water lily pond that is already choked with string algae or or. Hot and dry. No rain for weeks. Cicadas and dragonflies are the only creatures stirring out there.

What I should be doing, I guess, is starting to pack for my trip and stop feeling guilty for not Accomplishing something in the next two days.

My friend Catharine came up with this idea and invited some women with whom she wanted to spend the week and, much to my delight, I am one. There is myself and three others whom I met and spent a week with at the residency last year and then two friends of Catharine's whom I have never met. We are going to spend 5 days at a beach house on the Oregon coast.

So instead of turning my attention to setting up the new shop like I ought to, I'm going to be escaping some of summer's heat. Besides, Marc has promised me the new shop will be up and running by the end of August, at least rudimentarily.